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Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 6.5, a new version of their popular text expander.

The new version adds a helpful new feature that lets you define the way how the system-wide "smart substitutions" settings for quotes, dashes, etc. are handled within Typinator.

French speaking Typinator users will love to hear that Typinator now also accepts French quoting style (with double angle quotation marks and non-breaking spaces) in the marker for nested abbreviations.

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February 03, 2015: PopChar Win 6.3 prints beautiful font sheets

Perg, Austria: February 03, 2015 - Ergonis Software today announced PopChar Win 6.4, a new release of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently dealing with fonts and special characters on Windows.

PopChar Win 6.4 supports the brand-new version 7.0 of the Unicode standard. Unicode 7.0 integrates 2834 new characters, and PopChar Win 6.4 can now identify these new characters by their names. Among these characters are the new currency symbol for the Russian ruble as well as many pictographic symbols, geometric symbols, arrows, and ornaments originating from the Wingdings and Webdings sets. The new Unicode standard has been defined only recently, and fonts that support it have yet to be developed, but PopChar Win 6.4 is already prepared for releases of fonts that contain the new characters.

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January 15, 2015: Typinator 6.4 adds support for nested expansions

Perg, Austria: January 15, 2015 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 6.4, a new version of their popular text expander.

Typinator 6.4 comes with a new feature that lets you reuse existing abbreviations inside other expansions. To do so, you just specify an abbreviation within the definition of another expansion. When Typinator expands the container expansion, it also replaces the nested abbreviation with its corresponding expansion. The included expansion may also contain other markers and even regular expressions. You can use this feature to insert previously defined expansions in new ones, for example to insert a completely assembled date in another expansion, or to add a formatted signature at the end of a boilerplate mail template. More ...

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December 17, 2014: Typinator 6.3 finds recently used expansions

Perg, Austria: December 17, 2014 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 6.3, a new version of their popular text expander.

Typinator 6.3 comes with a handy new feature that lets you search for the most recent expansions, both in the find field in the Typinator window and in Quick Search. Finding recent expansions can be very helpful if you realize an unexpected expansion while typing and you don't know which abbreviation triggered this expansion. Now you can enter "last" in the find field, and Typinator will show the abbreviation that triggered that latest expansion. Typinator also accepts "recent" and "latest" as the keywords for this search function (in German "letzte", "letztes", "letzte"; in French "dernier", "derniers" and "récent"). You can also extend your search to more than just the latest expansion. For example, "recent 5" finds the five most recent expansions. More ...

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Perg, Austria: November 25, 2014 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 7.0, a major new version of the company's award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters and exploring fonts.

Since 1987, PopChar has been the best-known and highly acclaimed tool for finding and inserting special characters. With PopChar, inserting any character is as easy as clicking it in the PopChar table, and you can even search large fonts for characters by their Unicode names. Unfortunately, you often don't know the Unicode name of the desired character, so you don't know which search terms to enter. But you do know what the desired character looks like. With PopChar 7, you can now simply show PopChar what you want.

PopChar 7 introduces a new "Shape Finder", which allows you to draw the shape of a character on the screen to tell PopChar what you are looking for. More ...

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October 14, 2014: KeyCue 7.3 welcomes Yosemite with new Tenaya theme

Perg, Austria: October 14, 2014 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 7.3, an improved version of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. With a simple keystroke or click, KeyCue displays a table with all available keyboard shortcuts, system-wide hotkeys, as well as key combinations for triggering macros in Keyboard Maestro, QuicKeys and iKey.

While the Apple community is waiting for the final release of Yosemite, KeyCue 7.3 already welcomes the new system version with a new built-in theme, named after Tenaya Lake and Tenaya Canyon, both located in Yosemite National Park. KeyCue's "Tenaya" theme adopts the clean new look of Yosemite, making KeyCue a first-class citizen on the new OS X Version. More...

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Perg, Austria: September 23, 2014 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 6.2, a new version of their popular text expander.

Typinator 6 introduced an extremely versatile new feature - to create expansions based on regular expressions. This opens the door to revolutionary uses that were previously impossible. Typinator 6.2 adds new built-in functions (Count, List, Any, Index) that provide even more powerful applications of regular expressions. With these new functions, you can use regular expression patterns to extract and analyze certain pieces of text in longer text fragments. For example, you can use them to pick a random quotation from a file, count the number of words or lines in text on the clipboard, extract phrases from web pages, create a comma-delimited list of items that match a certain rule, or even calculate the sum of all numbers in a text document. More ...

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Perg, Austria: August 19, 2014 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 6.6, a new version of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently exploring fonts as well as finding and inserting special characters.

PopChar X 6.6 supports the brand-new version 7.0 of the Unicode standard. Unicode 7.0 integrates 2834 new characters, and PopChar 6.6 can now identify these new characters by their names. Among these characters are the new currency symbols for the Russian ruble, many other symbols, as well as approximately 250 emoji symbols, most of them deriving from characters in widespread use in Wingdings and Webdings fonts. An improved "Scripts and Symbols" layout also better matches the definitions in the Unicode standard. The new Unicode standard has been defined only recently, and fonts that support it have yet to be developed, but PopChar 6.6 is already prepared for releases of fonts that contain the new characters. More ...

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July 17, 2014: Typinator 6.1 comes with 20 enhancements beyond 6.0

Perg, Austria: July 17, 2014 - Typinator has been a leader in the field of text expansion software for nearly a decade. With the recent release of Typinator 6.0, which added more than 50 powerful new features and improvements, Ergonis underlined this leading role impressively. The unique support for regular expressions, top marks for speed, robustness, and ease of use, make Typinator the clear number one in its field.

The biggest innovation in Typinator 6 is doubtlessly the possibility to create expansions based on regular expressions. This is an extremely powerful feature that opens the door to revolutionary uses that were previously impossible with Typinator (as well as any other text expansion utility). Typinator also uses this technical foundation to implement features like DOuble CApitals correction, and auto-capitalize sentences. More ...

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June 17, 2014: Typinator 6 - with more than 50 improvements the best text expander ever

Perg, Austria: June 17, 2014 - Typinator has been a leader in the field of text expansion software for nearly a decade. With the new release of Typinator 6, which adds more than 50 powerful new features and improvements, this leading role is being impressively underlined. The unique support for regular expressions, top marks for speed, robustness, and ease-of-use, make Typinator the clear number one in its field.

Typinator 6 comes packed with more than 50 new features and improvements. The biggest innovation in Typinator 6 is doubtlessly the possibility to create expansions based on regular expressions. This is an extremely powerful feature that opens the door to revolutionary uses that were previously impossible with Typinator (as well as any other text expansion utility). There are tons of great use cases.

The new HTML expansions are not just text expansions that happen to contain HTML code, but rather a distinct expansion format that can be described in HTML. HTML expansions are most useful for mail applications that support rich text messages, such as Apple Mail, Microsoft Outlook, Airmail, Thunderbird, as well as many web-based mail services like iCloud Mail and Gmail. More ...

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Perg, Austria: May 27, 2014 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 7.2, an improved version of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. With a simple keystroke or click, KeyCue displays a table with all available keyboard shortcuts, system-wide hotkeys, as well as key combinations for triggering macros in Keyboard Maestro, QuicKeys and iKey.

KeyCue can show "visible" keyboard shortcuts collected from the menus of the current application and "invisible" shortcuts that come from its own custom shortcut descriptions. Until now, shortcuts of these different groups were shown in separate blocks. The new version elegantly merges shortcuts from these two sources and shows all shortcuts with the same header in the same block. This contributes to the clarity of the shortcut table and helps to find requested entries faster. More...

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April 15, 2014: With version 5.9, Ergonis Software is preparing for Typinator 6

Hagenberg, Austria: April 15, 2014 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5.9, which is the last maintenance update for the popular text expander Typinator 5.

Before preparing for the launch of the next major version 6 of Ergonis' highly acclaimed text expansion software Typinator, the company today announced a maintenance release that incorporates several minor bug fixes and improves compatibility with certain third-party applications like Aperture, MacGiro, Mellel, and others.

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Hagenberg, Austria: March 20, 2014 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 6.5, a new release of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently exploring fonts as well as finding and inserting special characters.

PopChar X 6.5 comes with a new custom insertion technique, which leads to faster character insertion for many applications. Among the improvements is also a work-around for a problem on Mavericks that caused the search field to be cleared while entering a search text. The new version furthermore solves a problem on non-English systems, where PopChar did not remember the previously selected layout.

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March 05, 2014: PopChar Win 6.3 prints beautiful font sheets

Hagenberg, Austria: March 05, 2014 - Ergonis Software today announced PopChar Win 6.3, a new release of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently dealing with fonts and special characters on Windows.

With version 6, PopChar has evolved from a plain character picker to a versatile font utility. The new "Font Preview" feature gives an impression of a selected font by showing representative characters and a selectable piece of text in multiple font sizes. The new version continues along this path and allows printing of beautiful font sheets based on the "Font Preview" and the "Sample Text" views.

In addition, PopChar Win 6.3 offers a list of further improvements, like enhanced filtering of Unicode fonts, selection-based copying of the font list, shortcuts in the PopChar menu, and more.

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Hagenberg, Austria: January 13, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5.8, a new version of their popular text expander.

The new version lets you define a hotkey to instantly search for matching snippets while you are typing. Finding good, short and still unique abbreviations can be a challenge, in particular, when you have hundreds of similar items. Typinator's new suggestion feature helps you find snippets as you type them. Just type a part of the abbreviation or a word that occurs in the expansion, followed by the custom keyboard shortcut for the new "Suggest Abbreviation" feature. Typinator immediately comes to help by displaying a list of all matching items and allowing you to choose the item you need. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: December 10, 2013 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 6.4, a maintenance release of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently exploring fonts as well as finding and inserting special characters.

PopChar X 6.4 improves compatibility with OS X Mavericks and incorporates many enhancements, which make PopChar X leaner and faster. Among the improvements are a faster display of the character table, reduced background activity, improved performance of application monitoring tasks, faster startup, reduced memory footprint, and more. On Mavericks, the "corner P" now appears on the active screen on multi-monitor configurations and PopChar now shows a more precise message when it needs accessibility permissions. The new version also offers improved compatibility with QuarkXPress, comes with an improved installer, and adds many other enhancements. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: November 5, 2013 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 7.1, an improved version of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet.

KeyCue 7 introduced a fresh new look with customizable themes, column headings for shortcut groups, arbitrary textual descriptions for shortcuts, and further great new features. It represents the most significant overhaul of the popular productivity enhancer since its initial release nearly 10 years ago.

The new version 7.1 continues along this path by adding new attributes for custom themes. It furthermore improves the search feature with a mouseless way to enter the search field. KeyCue 7.1 also offers an improved handling of special cases when checking for modifier keys that are available for KeyCue Settings, works also with CJK input methods and adds further enhancements. More...

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Hagenberg, Austria: October 29, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced PopChar Win 6.2, a new release of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently dealing with fonts and special characters on Windows.

PopChar has been at the hands of writers, publishers, and designers for 25 years, helping them to find and type special characters. With version 6, PopChar has evolved from a plain character picker to a versatile font utility. The new version continues along this path and adds a new Font Info view, which shows detailed font information like version number, properties, copyright and license statements, information about the designer, manufacturer, vendor, and more.

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Hagenberg, Austria: October 9, 2013 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 7.0, a major new release of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. With a simple keystroke or click, KeyCue displays a table with all available keyboard shortcuts, system-wide hotkeys, as well as key combinations for triggering macros in Keyboard Maestro, QuicKeys and iKey.

KeyCue 7.0 offers a fresh new look with customizable themes, column headings for shortcut groups, arbitrary textual descriptions for shortcuts, and further great new features. It represents the most significant overhaul of the popular productivity enhancer since its initial release nearly 10 years ago.

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Hagenberg, Austria: September 24, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5.7, a new version of their popular text expander.

With interactive input fields, Typinator offers a very flexible concept, where expansions can contain variable parts that are dynamically asked for when an abbreviation is used. This is a great way to create highly versatile text expansions like customizable mail templates, snippets for quick currency conversions, and many other use cases. The new version enhances this feature with optional default values. If a default value is present, Typinator always presets the input field with the specified string, instead of what the user entered the last time. This is particularly convenient for variable parts that will have the same content most of the time with occasional variations. More ...

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August 29, 2013: KeyCue 6.6 gets ready for OS X Mavericks

Hagenberg, Austria: August 29, 2013 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 6.6, an improved version of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. With a simple keystroke or click, KeyCue displays a table with all available keyboard shortcuts, system-wide hotkeys, as well as key combinations for triggering macros in Keyboard Maestro, QuicKeys and iKey.

The most important thing about KeyCue 6.6 is probably that KeyCue is now ready for OS X Mavericks, which is expected to be released later this fall. The new version works around an incompatibility with Mavericks and comes with an improved assistant for granting KeyCue accessibility permissions on Apple's next operating system.

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Hagenberg, Austria: August 13, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced PopChar Win 6.1, a new release of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently dealing with fonts and special characters on Windows.

The new version offers considerably improved keyboard support and adds menu shortcuts for switching between the different views. German umlauts can now be used to search for German Unicode names. Besides these and other new features, the release contains fixes for some user interface and performance issues.

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Hagenberg, Austria: July 23, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5.6, a new version of their popular text expander.

The new version can insert pictures in plain text expansions. Inserting pictures as part of a plain text snippet via Typinator's Includes mechanism instead of using formatted text has several advantages: you can save space by reusing the same picture in many expansions, you can easily exchange pictures by replacing the included picture files, and you can insert pictures in plain text snippets, which assume the font of the target document.

Typinator 5.6 also contains many enhancements behind the scenes to improve compatibility with third-party applications like Mail, iStudio Publisher, FirstClass, AirMail, Chrome, Firefox, MonoDevelop, and others. It also works around bugs in products by JetBrains, which cause various expansion problems (in particular, IntelliJ, PhpStorm, WebStorm, PyCharm, AppCode, MPS, RubyMine). More ...

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July 8, 2013: PopChar Win 6.0 - the versatile font tool now also for Windows

Hagenberg, Austria: July 8, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 6.0, a major new release of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently dealing with fonts and special characters on Windows. With the new version 6, PopChar has evolved from a plain character picker to a versatile font utility, which lets you make the most of your installed fonts.

Based on a streamlined user interface, the new "Font Preview" feature gives an impression of a selected font by showing representative characters and a selectable piece of text in multiple font sizes. In addition, the new "Sample Text" feature shows what the font looks like when applied to typical text fragments. Besides these new major features, PopChar Win 6 also contains a number of smaller enancements and refinements, like cursor support in the font list, improved mouse wheel support, and more.

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June 25, 2013: PopChar X 6.3 helps to find font files

Hagenberg, Austria: June 25, 2013 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 6.3, an improved version of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently exploring fonts and typing special characters.

PopChar X 6.3 enriches the recently introduced Font Info view with a clickable link that takes you directly to the storage location of the font file. The available fonts may come from different source folders. The new PopChar feature helps to find a particular font, without hunting through many potential folders. And when multiple versions of a certain fonts exist, PopChar can now tell you exactly which of these versions is currently in use.

The new version also offers a new technique for dealing with transient clipboard contents to improve compatibility with clipboard utilities. It adds several user interface improvements for moving and closing the PopChar window. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: May 21, 2013 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 6.5, an improved version of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet with several usability and performance enhancements, making lookup of keyboard shortcuts faster and easier than ever.

In addition to the new version of the program itself, Ergonis also published extended shortcut descriptions for the popular music notation software Sibelius. The descriptions can be imported in KeyCue 6 to reveal 272 hidden keyboard shortcuts in Sibelius. Besides the new shortcut descriptions for Sibelius, similar add-ons are available for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Avid Technology's Pro Tools. All these plus a collection of system-wide shortcuts can be downloaded from http://www.ergonis.com/downloads/extras/.

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Hagenberg, Austria: April 23, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5.5, a new version of their popular text expander. With the new concept of calculation fields, Typinator offers amazingly powerful text expansions for regular users without any programming skills.

The new calculation fields allow computations and assignments of computed values to variables. Until now, this could have been achieved with external scripts, but with the new feature, calculations can be embedded right into expansions. This opens the door to unbelievably versatile and flexible expansions without the need for any programming skills.

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March 19, 2013: PopChar X 6.2 with simpler search and other usability improvements

Hagenberg, Austria: March 19, 2013 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 6.2, an improved version of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently exploring fonts as well as finding and inserting special characters.

PopChar X 6.2 includes many usability improvements that make finding and inserting special characters and umlauts easier than ever. There's a new command-F shortcut for quickly searching for characters by name. But if this is still not fast enough, you can even simply start typing when the cursor is in the PopChar window and enter the search term right away. There are also new context menu commands "Copy Character Description" and "Copy Font List" for copying a brief summary of the selected Unicode character and the list of font names, respectively.

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February 19, 2013: KeyCue, the keyboard shortcut cheat sheet - now in the menu bar

Hagenberg, Austria: February 19, 2013 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 6.4, a new version of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet.

Starting with version 6.4, KeyCue has an icon in the menu bar, which is not only a visible indicator of KeyCue's presence, but also serves as an additional way to invoke KeyCue. This is particularly convenient when different key combinations are used to pop up separate compact tables for menu commands, system-wide hotkeys and macros. A click on the new menu icon can now summon a large combined table of all these shortcuts. And best of all, it is now possible to look up shortcuts without remembering another shortcut. KeyCue 6.4 also contains a couple of other enhancements and fixes and improves compatibility with OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

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February 13, 2013: Speed up FileMaker 12 development with Typinator function snippets

Hagenberg, Austria: February 13, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced the immediate availability of a new set of abbreviations for functions in FileMaker 12, which can be used with Typinator, its highly acclaimed text expander.

The new set contains over 370 snippets that cover all FileMaker 12 functions. With these snippets installed, FileMaker developers realize an unprecedented increase of productivity. Function names together with their parameters can now be inserted ultra-fast by typing a short abbreviation instead of tediously searching for them via pop-up menus and long lists. For users of earlier FileMaker versions, a set for FileMaker 9 is available as well.

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January 23, 2013: PopChar Win 5.5 runs smoothly on Windows 8

Hagenberg, Austria: January 23, 2013 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 5.5, the Windows version of the company's award-winning tool for system-wide search and insertion of special characters and umlauts.

For many customers, the most important news about this new version is probably that PopChar Win 5.5 has been tested thoroughly to run smoothly on Microsoft's new Windows 8 operating system. The new version also enables security features like ASLR, a security technology offered by Microsoft operating systems to hinder some types of attacks. The new version also supports Unicode 6.2, the latest release of the Unicode Standard.

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Hagenberg, Austria: December 18, 2012 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5.4, an improved new version of their popular text expander. The new version offers versatile import and export of text snippets in various formats.

Typinator can now export and import abbreviation sets in two popular formats: tab-delimited text and comma-separated values (CSV). This allows Typinator users to prepare large collections of abbreviations offline with text editors, spreadsheet programs and database applications. Transferring the collections into Typinator is then just a matter of selecting the Import command. This makes it really easy to create Typinator sets from external data.

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Hagenberg, Austria: November 27, 2012 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 6.1, an improved version of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently dealing with fonts and special characters.

With version 6, PopChar has evolved from a plain character picker to a versatile font utility. The new version continues along this path and adds a new Font Info view, which shows detailed font information like version number, properties, supported languages, copyright and license statements, information about the designer, manufacturer, vendor, and more.

In addition, PopChar X 6.1 includes custom tunings for more than 600 fonts, including the BeLight Font Kit and some foreign language fonts. Furthermore, PopChar now remembers the selected font across quit and relaunch, offers improved vertical positioning of certain non-standard fonts, and adds a number of other enhancements. More ...

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November 13, 2012: Typinator 5.3 fills entire forms with just one snippet

Hagenberg, Austria: November 13, 2012 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5.3, an improved new version of their popular text expander. The new version allows to insert special navigation keys in text expansions and can so fill out an entire form with just one snippet.

In Typinator 5.3, you can enrich snippets with markers that represent special keys on the physical keyboard. For example, you can insert a tab marker in the middle of an expansion to simulate a tab keystroke at this point. This allows you to jump from field to field in web forms and other dialog windows, so you can fill out an entire form with just one snippet. Other supported keys are the return key, the enter key, cursor keys, and more.

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Hagenberg, Austria: September 18, 2012 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of their popular text expander Typinator 5.2 and their keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet KeyCue 6.3. The new versions contain a number of improvements and enhancements to offer enhanced compatibility with the recently released OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

As usual for Ergonis Software, new releases - even minor versions - contain not only bug fixes and compatibility improvements, but usually also add new features and enhancements.

Particularly Typinator 5.2 stands out from its predecessor version with over 40 enhancements, making a "minor" version number increase a major leap forward.

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September 10, 2012: PopChar evolves from a plain character picker to a versatile font tool

Hagenberg, Austria: September 10, 2012 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 6.0, a major new release of the company's award-winning tool for efficiently dealing with fonts and special characters. With the new version 6, PopChar has evolved from a plain character picker to a versatile font utility which lets you make the most of your installed fonts.

PopChar has been at the hands of writers, publishers, and designers for 25 years, helping them to find and type special characters. Now, at its 25th anniversary, PopChar 6 goes a step further and adds great new features for exploring installed fonts from a designer's perspective.

Based on a streamlined user interface, the new "Font Preview" feature gives an impression of a selected font by showing representative characters and a selectable piece of text in multiple font sizes. In addition, the new "Sample Text" feature shows what the font looks like when applied to typical text fragments. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: August 29, 2012 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 5.4, the Windows version of the company's award-winning tool for system-wide search and insertion of special characters and umlauts.

The new version supports Unicode 6.1, the latest release of the Unicode Standard, which adds characters to support additional languages of China, other Asian countries, and Africa. A total of 732 new characters have been added in Unicode 6.1. Furthermore, PopChar Win 5.4 now displays the number of fonts in the different font categories in the font list window, and delivers a number of improvements and fixes for user-reported issues.

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June 26, 2012: KeyCue 6.2 offers hands-free mode and comes with new themes

Hagenberg, Austria: June 26, 2012 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 6.2, a new release of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the command key is kept pressed for a while, KeyCue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application, system-wide hotkeys, as well as key combinations for triggering macros in Keyboard Maestro, QuicKeys and iKeys.

KeyCue 6.2 offers a new hands-free mode which makes it much more comfortable to thoroughly investigate the shortcut table. Also included are two new themes resulting in more choices to customize KeyCue's look. The new themes are plain vanilla black-and-white themes with a distinct focus on the content - no shadows, no ornaments, just shortcuts in a high-contrast representation. In addition to the new themes, transparency adjustment for existing black-on-white themes has been improved. More...

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Hagenberg, Austria: May 29, 2012 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5.1, a highly improved new version of their popular text expander. The new version takes text expansion to the next level with interactive input fields.

In Typinator 5.1, expansions can contain input markers whose content is dynamically asked for when an abbreviation is used. This is a great new way to create highly versatile text expansions like customizable mail templates, snippets for quick currency conversions, and many other use cases. Typinator's marker concept is an easy way to insert placeholders for dynamic fields into snippets. More ...

KeyCue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the command key is kept pressed for a while, KeyCue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application. Previously, the application shortcuts shown by KeyCue were limited to those that appear in menus. However, many applications offer further hidden shortcuts that are listed only in help documents or printed manuals.

Starting with version 6, KeyCue supports user-definable custom shortcut descriptions to reveal these hidden commands. KeyCue merges the additional shortcut descriptions with the shortcuts found in the menus to show the most comprehensive keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet ever.

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April 24, 2012: PopChar X 5.4 is now a universal 32/64-bit application

Hagenberg, Austria: April 24, 2012 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 5.4, a maintenance release of the company's award-winning special character helper. PopChar X is now a universal 32/64-bit binary and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or newer to make best use of current system architectures. The new version also sports a new technique for inserting characters and comes with a simpler and faster animation when the PopChar window opens and closes.

The built-in automated check for new versions has been enhanced and allows optional inclusion of beta versions. Furthermore, PopChar X has been signed with a Developer ID certificate in preparation for Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper. A couple of other improvements and fixes complete the list of changes.

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April 10, 2012: KeyCue 6.1 now with improved support for Keyboard Maestro

Hagenberg, Austria: April 10, 2012 - Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 6.1, a new release of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the command key is kept pressed for a while, KeyCue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application.

The new version improves support for Keyboard Maestro by displaying macros with string triggers. The built-in automated check for new versions has been enhanced and allows optional inclusion of beta versions. KeyCue is now a universal 32/64-bit binary and requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or newer to make best use of current system architectures. Furthermore, in preparation for Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper, KeyCue has been signed with a Developer ID certificate. A couple of other improvements and fixes complete the list of changes.

February 21, 2012: Typinator 5 converts currencies and other units of measure as you type

The new conversion script impressively demonstrates the power and flexibility of Typinator's new scripting capabilities. With this AppleScript installed, Typinator users can convert currencies based on current exchange rates as well as arbitrary other units of measure like mass, length, time, etc., and get the conversion results inserted instantly into the current text.

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February 14, 2012: PopChar Win 5.3 adds support for font styles

Hagenberg, Austria: February 14, 2012 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 5.3, the Windows version of the company's award-winning tool for system-wide search and insertion of special characters and umlauts.

PopChar Win 5.3 adds support for font styles. Two check boxes in the font list window let you get a sneak preview how a particular font looks like in bold and italic. Furthermore, the new version contains improvements in the display of the font list and the magnify window, and delivers a number of improvements and fixes for user-reported issues.

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Hagenberg, Austria: January 19, 2012 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 5, a major new version of their popular text expander. With a long list of new features and enhancements, Typinator 5 impressively emphasizes its role as the leading text expander on Mac OS X systems.

The major new feature is doubtlessly scripting support, which opens up a wide range of opportunities to create more generic and versatile text snippets than ever. With a simple inclusion mechanism, text expansions can execute external scripts and include their results in the expansion. Typinator supports scripts written in in many different languages like AppleScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and arbitrary shell scripting languages.

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October 27, 2011: KeyCue 6 reveals hidden keyboard shortcuts

Hagenberg, Austria: October 27, 2011 - Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 6, a major new release of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet.

The new version supports user-definable custom shortcut descriptions to reveal hidden commands, i.e. keyboard shortcuts that are not visible in any menu. Together with KeyCue 6, Ergonis has released extended shortcut descriptions for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign, as well as descriptions of universal text editing and navigation shortcuts.

Up to now, KeyCue showed only keyboard shortcuts that are included in the applications' menus. Many applications, however, offer further shortcuts that cannot be found in the menus and were therefore not included in KeyCue's shortcut overview. With KeyCue 6, users can now define their own shortcut descriptions for their favorite programs, and KeyCue merges them with the shortcuts found in the menus to show the most comprehensive keyboard shortcuts cheat sheet ever.

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September 27, 2011: Make best use of Lion's Apple Color Emoji font with PopChar X 5.3 and Typinator

Hagenberg, Austria: September 27, 2011 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 5.3, a new version of the company's award-winning special character helper, with support for the new Apple Color Emoji font, which was added in OS X Lion. In addition to that, a new snippet set for Typinator, the company's popular text expander, now provides ultra-quick access to the symbols of the Apple Color Emoji font.

In OS X Lion, Apple has added a new font called Apple Color Emoji with hundreds of colored emoticons, icons and other symbols. With the new version of PopChar, you can now browse the beautifully designed color symbols in Apple Color Emoji, search for particular ideograms by name, and insert them as characters in applications that know how to handle color fonts.

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Hagenberg, Austria: August 23, 2011 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of Typinator 4.5, a new version of their popular text expander. A long list of nearly 50 enhancements makes Typinator 4.5 running smoother than ever on a wide range of Mac OS X system versions from 10.4 (Tiger) up to 10.7 (Lion).

The new version is not just a maintenance release. It also adds new features like import of MS Office ACL files and support for right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew. Typinator 4.5 also improves compatibility with many third-party applications, such as Safari 5.1, Canvas X, Google Earth, BBEdit, and many more.

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Hagenberg, Austria: August 02, 2011 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 5.2, the Windows version of the company's award-winning tool for system-wide search and insertion of special characters and umlauts.

PopChar Win 5.2 focuses on metrics and font size. It offers a new slider that allows you to customize the display size of individual fonts in addition to the global setting in PopChar's preferences. The new slider is ideal for fonts with small and light characters that you want to appear in a larger size.

"We are happy to announce that with the recent release of KeyCue 5.4 all our products are now fully compatible with OS X Lion." said Christoph Reichenberger, founder and CEO of Ergonis Software. "Said that, I am also glad to mention that our products still run also on older Mac OS versions." The current versions of PopChar X, Typinator, and KeyCue run on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), and 10.6 (Snow Leopard), and now fully support OS X Lion, whereas SharewarePublisher requires Mac OS X 10.5 or newer.

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June 28, 2011: KeyCue gets an optional legend for keyboard symbols

Hagenberg, Austria: June 28, 2011 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 5.3, a new release of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is quite a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the command key is kept pressed for a while, KeyCue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application.

The newest version adds an optional legend that explains the meaning of symbols used in the shortcut table. KeyCue uses the same key symbols that are used throughout Mac OS X, but some of these are obscure and need an explanation - especially for users who are new to the Mac. Switchers will therefore particularly appreciate the new legend. Like the shortcut table itself, the legend is compact and context-sensitive; it displays only those key symbols that appear in the shortcut table right now.

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May 10, 2011: Details make a difference: New Typinator comes with 35 enhancements

Hagenberg, Austria: May 10, 2011 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of Typinator 4.4, a new version of their popular text expander. The new version comes with a long list of 35 enhancements, making Typinator 4.4 best of its class.

Among the improvements are a new preference setting to control the volume of the expansion sounds, several fine-tuned enhancements of Typinator's unique Quick Search feature, a couple of improvements to make the Quick Define function even better, and more.

The new version also offers improved compatibility with FileMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Safari, Google Chrome, and many other third-party applications. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: April 12, 2011 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 5.2, a new version of the company's award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters.

PopChar X 5.2 focuses on metrics and font size. The most prominent change is a new slider at the bottom of the PopChar window that allows you to customize the display size of individual fonts in addition to the global setting in PopChar's preferences. The new slider is ideal for fonts with small and light characters that you want to appear in a larger size.

PopChar 5.2 also contains fine-tuned adjustments for many popular fonts. The program "knows" about 70+ fonts with unusual metrics and avoids large white areas around characters, which results in larger characters that are easier to read. Beyond that, PopChar 5.2 solves some known issues and reduces the CPU load when running in the background. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: February 08, 2011 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 5.1, the Windows version of the company's award-winning tool for system-wide search and insertion of special characters and umlauts.

PopChar Win 5.1 supports the brand-new version 6.0 of the Unicode standard and can now identify more than 23,000 characters by their names. It features a new command for cleaning up the table of recent characters and allows skipping the announcement of new versions. The new version also improves the handling of favorite fonts and the display of some complex characters, particularly in the magnifying glass. A complete list of changes and enhancement can be found at the company's website. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: January 11, 2011 - Ergonis Software today released Typinator 4.3, a new version of their popular text expander. The new version allows to quickly define new snippets via configurable hotkeys or via Typinator's menu.

Typinator 4.3 also makes it easier to delete empty snippets and improves compatibility with Firefox, Google Chrome, FreeHand, and other third-party applications.

Typinator is a powerful, yet elegantly simple solution that boosts your productivity by automating the process of inserting frequently used text and auto-correcting typing errors. Across all applications, it detects specific sequences of typed characters and automatically replaces them with text snippets, graphics, URLs, dates and special characters. More ...

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December 07, 2010: KeyCue 5.2 now lists iKey shortcuts

Hagenberg, Austria: December 7, 2010 - Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 5.2, the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet, now with support for iKey.

KeyCue is a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the command key is kept pressed for a while, KeyCue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application.

iKey is a popular macro program that lets you perform custom action sequences with hotkeys. As with menu shortcuts, when you have defined a lot of useful macros, remembering all the hotkeys for invoking them becomes a challenge.

Starting with version 5.2 of KeyCue and version 2.5 of iKey, the two applications work together allowing KeyCue to show the currently active iKey shortcuts. The new version of KeyCue comes with a number of enhancements and fixes, including improved compatibility with FileMaker Pro 11 and Keyboard Maestro. More...

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Hagenberg, Austria: November 16, 2010 - Ergonis Software today released Typinator 4.2, a maintenance release of their popular text expander. The new version fixes a problem with the recently released Mac OS X 10.6.5 that caused certain abbreviations to fail. It furthermore offers improved compatibility with third-party applications like iTunes 10, 4D, Outlook 2011, and others.

Typinator 4.2 also works around an issue where Safari's suggestions in the address field caused leftover characters in expansions, reduces the housekeeping activities done at idle time, fixes a problem where Typinator stopped working when more than 100 sets were installed, and improves overall stability and performance. More ...

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November 11, 2010: PopChar helps the European Union to manage linguistic diversity

Hagenberg, Austria: November 11, 2010 - PopChar, Ergonis' award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters, moves into the offices of the European Union. The European Economic and Social Committee has started using PopChar to manage the linguistic diversity of their PC infrastructure.

With 27 member states the European Union has to deal with 23 official languages. In order that member state representatives may continue to work between meetings when they visit Brussels, Luxembourg, and Strasbourg, most European institutions endeavor to provide an appropriate IT infrastructure. For entering all the language-specific special characters, this would require dozens of national keyboards, spread randomly throughout a hot desk environment. However, this is almost impossible to maintain at both the hardware and software levels. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: November 2, 2010 - Ergonis Software today released PopChar X 5.1, an improved version of the company's award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters.

PopChar X 5.1 supports version 6.0 of the Unicode standard. It features a new command for cleaning up the table of recent characters and allows skipping the announcement of new versions.

The new version furthermore improves overall performance and compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and applications like Espresso and FileMaker Pro. A complete list of changes and enhancement can be found at the company's website. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: October 12, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 5.0, the Windows version of its highly acclaimed tool for system-wide search and insertion of special characters and umlauts.

The new version adds a long-desired feature that allows users to collect frequently used characters in a custom "Favorites" group. This provides fastest possible look-up and insertion of special characters with a single click. Besides that, PopChar Win 5 also lets the user define a group of favorites fonts, which makes font selection a no-brainer even with hundreds of fonts installed. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: August 18, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of Typinator 4.1, a new version of their popular text expansion software. The new version allows to define set-specific presets for abbreviation options and speeds up the newly introduced QuickSearch function as well as the import of text files.

Typinator 4.1 also improves the installation and upgrade experience by allowing to skip one particular version in the automatic update check and by displaying a more prominent warning when a new version is not covered by the current license. Furthermore, the new release solves a problem with composing Gmail messages in Firefox and improves compatibility with certain 3rd party apps like Mail, aMSN, Kindle for Mac, and others. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: July 27, 2010 — Ergonis Software today released KeyCue 5.1, a maintenance release of the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is quite a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the command key is kept pressed for a while, KeyCue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application.

The newest version introduces a new built-in diagnostic tool for application-specific adjustments, increases compatibility with 3rd party applications, and improves overall performance, particularly in Safari.

In addition to that, KeyCue 5.1 improves the installation and upgrade experience by displaying a more prominent warning when a new version is not covered by the current license, and by allowing to skip one particular version in the automatic update check. More...

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Hagenberg, Austria: July 13, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of SharewarePublisher 1.4, a new version of their marketing assistant and software submission tool for Mac OS X.

Version 1.4 changes the way how file sizes are converted from byte to KB and MB. Conversion is now based on 1000 instead of 1024 to be consistent with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Besides that, the new version incorporates a number of enhancements and fixes and is thus a recommended upgrade for all SharewarePublisher users. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: July 6, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 4.4, the Windows version of its award-winning tool for system-wide search and insertion of special characters and umlauts.

PopChar Win 4.4 offers an improved install and uninstall process, allowing installation now also for users without administrator privileges. Besides that, the new version delivers a number of other improvements and fixes and is a recommended update for everyone running PopChar on Windows. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: June 15, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of PopChar X 5.0, a major new version of its award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters.

The new version adds a long-desired feature that allows users to collect frequently used characters in a custom "Favorites" group. Together with the new hockey feature, this provides fastest possible look-up and insertion of special characters with a single click. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: May 18, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of SharewarePublisher 1.3, a new version of their marketing assistant and software submission tool for Mac OS X.

Version 1.3 offers user interface refinements and improvements, like a new context menu to jump to a particular site in the Sites Manager right from the submissions window, and to view the submission and listing date in the submissions info tab. It furthermore improves compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and adds a number of other enhancements and fixes. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: May 4, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of Typinator 4.0, a major leap forward in the evolution of text expanders.

Typinator 4 introduces a new feature called "QuickSearch" that takes usage and management of text snippets to the next level. Instead of inventing and remembering hundreds of cryptic abbreviations, you just type a keyboard shortcut and enter a few characters. Typinator instantly displays a list of matching snippets. Pick the one that you want, and it appears in your document right away. It's like Spotlight for snippets, only much faster. QuickSearch can also be used for quickly opening and editing existing snippets. More ...

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April 26, 2010: PopChar Win 4.3 offers font search by category and character

Hagenberg, Austria: April 26, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 4.3, the Windows version of its award-winning tool for system-wide search and insertion of special characters and umlauts.

PopChar Win 4.3 offers an improved search for fonts by different categories and can restrict the font list to only those fonts that contain a special character. The new version also delivers a number of user interface improvements, like better handling of multiple monitor configurations, improved navigation and a context menu in the font list, and adds support for Unicode 5.2.
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Hagenberg, Austria: March 30, 2010 — Ergonis Software today announced KeyCue 5.0, the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet. KeyCue is quite a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the command key is kept pressed for a while, KeyCue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application.

Until now, KeyCue could show only keyboard shortcuts that are visible in a program's regular menus. KeyCue 5 adds an open interface that enables 3rd party products to use KeyCue for displaying custom keyboard shortcuts, regardless whether the shortcuts are visible in the menu or not. KeyCue 5 also comes with a new technique for easy installation and update and offers further improvements, like an option to specify on which display the shortcut table shall appear. More...

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Hagenberg, Austria: January 12, 2010 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of Typinator 3.7, an improved version of its highly acclaimed text expansion tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos.

The new version delivers a number of user interface improvements to allow quicker access to the text snippets window and to instantly pause and resume Typinator's text expansion activity. Typinator 3.7 also utilizes Ergonis' new easy installation and upgrade technique. New and existing customers alike will benefit from this new technique making the installation of Typinator a breeze. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: November 24, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of PopChar X 4.3, the award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters.

The new version supports the usage of font collections as defined in Font Book and the Mac OS X font panel, can restrict the font list to only those fonts that contain a special character, and adds support for Unicode 5.2. PopChar X 4.3 is also the first of our products that utilizes Ergonis' new easy installation and upgrade technique. New and existing customers alike will benefit from this new technique making the installation of PopChar a breeze. Furthermore, PopChar X 4.3 improves compatibility with Snow Leopard as well as with MS Word, MS Excel, and Java applications. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: October 14, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 4.2, the Windows version of its award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters.

PopChar now allows "reverse searching", i.e., searching for fonts that contain a particular character. With a single menu command, you can mark all fonts that contain a desired character and then even jump directly to the marked character in a favored font. This new feature is particularly convenient when you are searching for a special character that is not present in the current font. Furthermore, PopChar Win 4.2 is fully compatible with Windows 7. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: September 29, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of Typinator 3.6, the new version of its highly acclaimed text expansion tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos.

The new version adds support for Dropbox, an online platform and software that automatically syncs your files across your computers. Setting up Typinator for using Dropbox synchronization is as easy as defining Typinator's set folder to be located inside your Dropbox folder with a new preferences setting. Now your snippets will be instantly available on any of your other computers that you've configured that way.

Typinator 3.6 furthermore implements a long list of improvements and other changes, including further speed enhancements and increased compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and many 3rd party applications. More ...

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September 10, 2009: SharewarePublisher is now also a full-fledged PAD editor for Mac OS X

Hagenberg, Austria: September 10, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of SharewarePublisher 1.2, a new version of their marketing assistant and software submission tool for Mac OS X.

Starting with version 1.2, SharewarePublisher is now also a full-fledged PAD editor for Mac OS X, including extensions for handling affiliates and ASP membership information.

The new version also adds compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and delivers a number of other improvements and fixes. More ...

August 25, 2009: KeyCue 4.5 lets you get the most out of your QuicKeys shortcuts

KeyCue is quite a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the Command key is kept pressed for a while, KeyCue displays a table with all keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application. QuicKeys is a powerful macro program that lets you define custom action sequences together with your own shortcuts to activate them. As with menu shortcuts, when you have defined a lot of useful macros, remembering all the shortcuts for invoking them becomes a challenge.

Starting with version 4.5 of KeyCue and version 4.0 of QuicKeys, the two applications work together allowing KeyCue to show the currently active QuicKeys shortcuts. More...

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July 14, 2009: Ergonis Software releases SharewarePublisher 1.1

Hagenberg, Austria: July 14, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of SharewarePublisher 1.1, an improved version of their new software submission tool and assistant for Mac OS X. The new version adds a new feature to automatically copy the product's category from the submission form to the SharewarePublisher database and delivers a number of other improvements and fixes.

A native Cocoa application, SharewarePublisher ships with almost 200 pre-configured shareware sites (about 100 of them carrying Mac software titles), with carefully hand-tuned ratings/priorities. It provides functions to autolocate the listing and submission page for a product on all sites and autofills the forms with a single click. This is particularly useful for non-PAD-aware sites. SharewarePublisher also features built-in check lists, which sites that have to be submitted to, and where a product has yet to be listed. More ...

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July 06, 2009: Typinator is part of TheMacBundles volume 2

Hagenberg, Austria: July 6, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced that Typinator 3.5, the fastest and brand new version of its highly acclaimed text expander, is available as part of the TheMacBundles, a bundle of 11 great Mac products.

Typinator is a powerful, yet elegantly simple text expansion utility that works across all applications. It detects specific sequences of typed characters and automatically replaces them with text snippets, graphics, URLs, dates and special characters. The brand new version 3.5 of Typinator introduces a new technology that makes expansion and insertion of text even faster than before. More ...

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June 30, 2009: Typinator 3.5 - the fastest text expander in town

Hagenberg, Austria: June 30, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of Typinator 3.5, the fastest and most robust version of its highly acclaimed text expansion tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos.

When it comes to text expansion, Typinator has always shined for its speed and robustness as well as compatibility with arbitrary applications. The new version of Typinator introduces a new technology that makes the expansion and insertion of text even faster than before. Besides that, the new version includes a long list of other enhancements, including improved compatibility with XCode, BBEdit and TextWrangler, Eclipse and many Java applications. Finally, the update fixes among others a problem that caused Typinator to forget its license information when preferences were synced with MobileMe. All this makes Typinator 3.5 the fastest and most compatible text expander ever. More ...

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June 23, 2009: PopChar Win 4.1 runs natively on 64-bit Windows

Hagenberg, Austria: June 23, 2009  Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 4.1, the Windows version of its award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters.

Starting with version 4.1, PopChar now runs natively on 64-bit versions of Windows. It comes with an improved installer to avoid permission problems during installation on standard user accounts. The new version also adds a new function to copy a character's Unicode name to the clipboard, and includes a number of other improvements and fixes for user-reported issues. More...

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May 26, 2009: Ergonis Software introduces SharewarePublisher 1.0

Hagenberg, Austria: May 26, 2009 - Ergonis Software today is delighted to introduce SharewarePublisher 1.0, their new software submission tool and assistant for Mac OS X. Developed specifically for shareware developers, vendors and media specialists alike, SharewarePublisher helps semi-automatically submit software applications to leading software listing sites and repositories. Developers can submit to 100+ sites within just a few hours, which would otherwise take several days.

The benefit of being listed on many shareware sites is not only the direct exposure, but also the additional links to the developer's company website. This leads to better Google ranking, results in more traffic and potentially translates to more customers. With SharewarePublisher, developers will enjoy seeing their application(s) listed on many sites instantly. SharewarePublisher features built-in check lists, which sites that have to be submitted to, and where a product has yet to be listed. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: April 21, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release and immediate availability of PopChar X 4.2, the award-winning tool for finding and inserting special characters.

PopChar now allows "reverse searching", i.e., searching for fonts that contain a particular character. With a single menu command, you can mark all fonts that contain a desired character and then even jump directly to the marked character in a favored font.

This new feature is particularly convenient when you are searching for a special character that is not present in the current font. More ...

With the release of KeyCue 4.4, Ergonis Software takes the popular cheat sheet tool for discovering and applying Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts to the next level.

In addition to keyboard shortcuts for application-specific menu commands and Keyboard Maestro macros, the new version adds support for system-wide hotkeys.

Furthermore, the new version includes a number of other improvements and fixes, like support for function keys F16 to F19 on aluminum keyboards and improved display of shortcuts that include the space bar. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: February 24, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 4.0, the award-winning tool for finding and typing special characters.

PopChar 4 introduces a new view that allows users to search for special characters in a new, system-wide way, without being limited to the characters available in a particular font.

Imagine you want to type the cubic meters symbol, but you don't know the keyboard combination, much less you know what font contains the required symbol. Up to now you would have to search all your installed fonts one by one. With PopChar 4 you just type "cub m" in the search field and switch to the new "All" view. If any of your installed fonts contains the cubic meters symbol, PopChar will show it to you, and will allow you to insert it into your document with a single click. You don't even have to know which font the symbol comes from. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: January 28, 2009 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 3.4, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos.

The new version adds a number of user-requested features, like the option to temporarily suspend Typinator and to preserve the height of the set list when the window size changes. It also implements a new technique that allows Typinator to expand abbreviations in floating windows such as in Spotlight or in the quick entry windows of OmniFocus and TaskPaper.

Finally, the new version includes a number of other improvements and fixes, including a problem that caused the memory requirements to grow over time. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: December 17, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 3.3, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos.

The new version adds predefined sets with subscript and superscript characters and separate auto-correction dictionaries for US and British English. It thus comes with a total of 10 predefined abbreviation sets for system-wide auto-correction for three languages, HTML coding, FileMaker development, and more.

Typinator 3.3 also allows to define set-specific options, where users can conveniently specify common prefix and suffix characters for all abbreviations within a set, define separate expansion sounds and add notes per set. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: November 21, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar X 4.1.1, the award-winning tool for inserting special characters into your documents across all Mac OS X applications.

The maintenance release works around a problem with inserting characters in FreeHand 10 and contains a number of fixes for user-reported issues, particularly unexpected termination of PopChar when collapsing or expanding Unicode groups. More ...

In the new version, the keyboard combination used for activating KeyCue can be configured in a flexible way. This assures that KeyCue will no longer inadvertently come up just because you pressed the command key a little bit too long.

KeyCue 4.3 also allows to display menu shortcuts and Keyboard Maestro macros together in a single table and includes a new technique for flexible adaptation to peculiarities of certain applications. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: October 29, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar X 4.1, the award-winning tool for inserting special characters into your documents across all Mac OS X applications.

The new version improves compatibility with OpenOffice and NeoOffice and can now detect the current font in MultiAd Creator Pro. It also includes a new technique for flexible adaptation to peculiarities of certain applications. Furthermore, PopChar X 4.1 delivers a number of other improvements and fixes for user-reported issues. In particular, it fixes a problem that caused the memory allocation of PopChar to grow over time. More ...

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October 15, 2008: Typinator 3.2 speeds up FileMaker development

Hagenberg, Austria: October 15, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 3.2, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos.

Typinator 3.2 will particularly intrigue FileMaker developers since it comes with a predefined snippets set containing over 350 abbreviations for all FileMaker 9 functions. With Typinator, FileMaker developers will realize an unprecedented increase of productivity. Function names together with their parameters can now be inserted ultra-fast by typing a short abbreviation instead of tediously searching for them via popup-menu and long lists.

The new version also improves compatibility with OpenOffice and NeoOffice, Apple's Mail, and BlueJ, and adds other improvements. More ...

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July 14, 2008: Typinator 3.1 comes with built-in HTML snippets and many improvements

Hagenberg, Austria: July 14, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 3.1, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos system-wide across all Mac OS X applications.

The new version integrates the recently released HTML snippets set providing over 100 abbreviations for elements of the HTML 4.01 standard. Typinator 3.1 also improves compatibility with many popular applications like Coda, VMWare Fusion, Butler, Zend Studio, and others.

In addition to many functional improvements, the menu bar icon has been redesigned to better match the style of Apple's menu extras - and for the user interface purists, it can now even be turned off. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: June 16, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar X 4.0, the award-winning tool for finding and typing special characters.

PopChar 4 introduces a new view that allows users to search for special characters in a new, system-wide way, without being limited to the characters available in a particular font.

Imagine you want to type the cubic meters symbol, but you don't know the keyboard combination, much less you know what font contains the required symbol. Up to now you would have to search all your installed fonts one by one. With PopChar 4 you just type "cub m" in the search field and switch to the new "All" view. If any of your installed fonts contains the cubic meters symbol, PopChar will show it to you, and will allow you to insert it into your document with a single click. You don't even have to know which font the symbol comes from. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: June 10, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 3.4, the Windows version of its popular tool for inserting umlauts and special characters into the text of any application.

The new version offers an enhanced search feature that lets you easily find special characters by name, by Unicode number, or by example. It adds support for Unicode 5.1 and offers an automatic update checking system, which ensures timely access to updates for future versions.

A number of other improvements and fixes for user-reported issues are also included in this release. More...

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June 03, 2008: Typinator HTML coding made easy with new snippets set for Typinator

Hagenberg, Austria: June 03, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the immediate availability of a new HTML snippets set for Typinator, its highly acclaimed tool for auto-typing text system-wide across all Mac OS X applications.

The new HTML set provides over 100 abbreviations for elements of the HTML 4.01 standard. With this set installed in Typinator, you just type a short abbreviation and Typinator will insert the corresponding HTML code and place the insertion point appropriately. More ...

KeyCue is quite a handy tool for learning and remembering keyboard shortcuts. Whenever the Command key is kept pressed for a set amount of time, the KeyCue window will appear listing all the keyboard shortcuts available in the currently active application.

Keyboard Maestro is a powerful macro program that lets you define custom action sequences together with your own shortcuts to activate them.

As with menu shortcuts, when you have defined a lot of useful macros, remembering all the shortcuts for invoking them becomes a challenge. Starting with version 3.0 of Keyboard Maestro and version 4.2 of KeyCue, the two applications work together allowing KeyCue to show all currently active Keyboard Maestro hot keys. More...

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April 14, 2008: Typinator 3.0 now dockless - almost invisible, but always ready for use

Hagenberg, Austria: April 14, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 3.0, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-typing text and auto-correcting typos system-wide across all Mac OS X applications.

With the new version, Typinator is no longer a regular application visible in the dock and the application switcher, but rather a dockless background-only application that is acting unobtrusively in the background. A small icon in the menu bar gives quick access to Typinator's main window.

A new search feature lets you instantly view only snippets that contain a specified search string. Particularly users with many snippets will love this feature. Typinator 3.0 also adds a number of further improvements. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: March 10, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar X 3.4, the popular tool for finding and typing special characters.

The new version offers an enhanced search feature that lets you easily find special characters by name, Unicode number, or by example. A new context menu supports copying selected characters to the clipboard in various formats.

Finally, the new release offers an automatic update checking system and improves compatibility with Leopard and popular applications like InDesign, Illustrator, and Excel. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: February 19, 2008  Ergonis Software® today released KeyCue 4.1, the company's popular keyboard shortcut cheat sheet.
KeyCue 4.1 adds two high-contrast large-font themes to make KeyCue even more helpful for visually impaired users. The new version also offers an automatic update checking system, which ensures timely access to updates for future versions.

"I'm thrilled that KeyCue will now be more accessible to low vision users. When you have low vision, using a keyboard shortcut is often vastly easier than finding an item on a menu, but learning keyboard shortcuts can be harder than usual. The keyboard shortcuts are printed *in* the menu items so if you have trouble reading the menu items then you'll have trouble reading the shortcuts to learn them," said Ricky Buchanan, founder and operator of ATMac.org. "Now that KeyCue bypasses that problem by having high-contrast large-font views available things will be much easier for OS X users with low vision." More...

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Hagenberg, Austria: February 05, 2008 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar Win 3.3, the Windows version of its popular tool for inserting umlauts and special characters into the text of any application.

The new version comes with a new magnifier tool that provides an enlarged view of characters to clearly show all subtle glyph details, including their position relative to the baseline. PopChar Win 3.3 also supports Unicode 5.0 and delivers a number of other improvements and fixes for user-reported issues. More...

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Hagenberg, Austria: December 03, 2007 - Ergonis Software is all set to celebrate the 20th anniversary of PopChar, the award-winning tool for inserting umlauts and special characters into the text of any application.

In celebration of this anniversary, customers can save 25% off the regular price when they order PopChar during December 2007. Effective immediately, any order for PopChar X and PopChar Win placed on Ergonis' online store before the end of the year will receive a 25% discount. The special offer applies to new licenses as well as upgrades and is available only at Ergonis' online store at www.ergonis.com/store. More ...

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November 27, 2007: Typinator 2.1 expands text snippets and auto-corrects typos now also on Leopard

Hagenberg, Austria: November 27, 2007 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of Typinator 2.1, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-correcting typos and auto-typing text across all Mac OS X applications.

The new version is ready for Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") and improves compatibility with Flash, Numbers, MS Office, Terminal, You-Control, and others. Furthermore, the built-in auto-correction dictionaries have been refined to enhance smooth multi-lingual auto-correction in all applications on Leopard.

Typinator is a powerful, yet elegantly simple solution that works across all applications to detect specific sequences of typed characters and automatically replace them with text snippets, graphics, URLs, dates and special characters. More ...

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October 29, 2007: PopChar X 3.3 comes with new font magnifier tool and is ready for Leopard

Hagenberg, Austria: October 29, 2007 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of PopChar X 3.3, the popular tool for inserting umlauts and special characters into the text of any application.

The new version is ready for Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard") and comes with a new magnifier tool that provides an enlarged view of characters to clearly show all subtle glyph details, including their position relative to the baseline. Besides a number of other improvements, the new version also delivers automatic font selection for all components of iWork '08.

"As with every time when Apple rolls out a new version of Mac OS X, we know that many of our customers would not upgrade to the new OS without being sure that their favorite font utility works on the new platform," said Christoph Reichenberger, founder and CEO of Ergonis Software. "We are therefore happy to announce the Leopard-ready version of PopChar X today, right after the official release of Mac OS X 10.5." More ...

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October 10, 2007: PopChar Win 3.2 allows even quicker access to frequently used umlauts and special characters

Hagenberg, Austria: October 10, 2007 - Ergonis Software today announced the release of version 3.2 of "the better character map" PopChar Win, a utility for inserting umlauts and special characters into the text of any application.

The new release adds a great new feature to allow even quicker access to frequently used special characters. Recently used characters are now highlighted in the main view such that they can be located and inserted into any document instantly. More...

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Hagenberg, Austria: August 29, 2007 - Ergonis Software today rolled out PopChar Win 3.1.1, a maintenance release of the recently released version 3.1 of its highly acclaimed tool for inserting umlauts and special characters into the text of any application.

PopChar Win 3.1 adds a number of improvements and user-requested enhancements, including support for automatic font detection in AutoCad. Visit Ergonis Software's website at http://www.ergonis.com/popcharwin to learn more about specific enhancements and fixes contained in this release and to download a trial copy. More...

The latest update to Typinator from Ergonis Software gave the program the capability to correct typos and misspellings as soon as they're entered. To help users get started immediately, Ergonis provided dictionaries of more than 800 common mistakes in each of English, German, and French. Now Typinator has become even more useful with the addition of the public domain TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary in English, which enables Typinator to correct over 2,300 additional mistakes on the fly.

TidBITS publisher Adam C. Engst said, "The original public domain list of mistakes and their corrections comes from Micah Alpern; we enhanced and formatted it for use with the unsupported auto-correction capability in Eudora, where I've become addicted to it. When Typinator 2.0 added auto-correction, we worked with Ergonis to convert it appropriately and import it into Typinator, making Typinator a fixture on all my Macs." More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: August 13, 2007 - Ergonis Software® today announced the release of PopChar Win 3.1, a revised version of its highly acclaimed tool for inserting special characters into the text of any application.

The new release adds a number of improvements and user-requested enhancements, including support for automatic font detection in AutoCad. Visit Ergonis Software's website to learn more about specific enhancements and fixes contained in this release and to download a trial copy. More...

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June 05, 2007: Good Bye Typos - Hello Typinator 2.0! Eliminate common typos and type more text in less time

Hagenberg, Austria: June 05, 2007 - Ergonis Software® today announced the release and immediate availability of Typinator 2.0, the latest version of its highly acclaimed tool for auto-correcting typos, auto-typing text and inserting graphics across all Mac OS X applications.

With thousands of pre-defined corrections for common typos and misspelled words for the languages English, German, and French, Typinator is no longer just a typing assistant that speeds repetitive typing tasks, but also becomes a system-wide auto-correction tool that automatically corrects typing errors and misspelled words. With all the new features of version 2.0, Typinator proves again that it is the reference in its field. The new drag-and-drop import from Textpander, TextExpander, and TypeIt4Me makes migration to Typinator a no-brainer. More ...

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Hagenberg, Austria: May 07, 2007 - Ergonis Software® today announced the release of PopChar X 3.2, the de-facto standard tool for inserting special characters into the text of any application.

The new release adds a number of user-requested enhancements, including the options to highlight recently selected characters and to hide the small "P" in the corner of the screen. In addition to these features, many internal changes make PopChar faster and improve compatibility with QuarkXpress and InDesign. More ...

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March 28, 2007: PopChar Win 3.0 - now includes advanced integration with QuarkXPress and QuarkCopyDesk

Hagenberg, Austria: March 28, 2007 - Ergonis Software® today announced the release of PopChar Win 3.0, a completely redesigned version of its widely used tool for inserting special characters into the text of any application.

Ergonis took a fresh look at the challenge of inserting special characters into text, from both a user and technology perspective. The result is not just a new version of PopChar. Instead, PopChar 3 has been completely redesigned and rebuilt from ground up. It mixes the well-proven concepts of earlier versions with a good dose of “Ergonis Innovation” to deliver the best PopChar ever! More ...

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February 26, 2007: KeyCue 3.0 released

KeyCue 3.0 contains a new engine for collecting shortcuts and is up to ten times faster than previous versions. The new version also sports different themes for customizing the appearance of the shortcut table. These themes include the "Classic" look of previous versions and a brand-new "Dashboard" theme that darkens the rest of the screen to attract attention to the shortcuts.

Besides that, the new release adds complete French localization including French documentation. It also includes some other functional improvements and maintenance fixes to user-reported issues. See the version history at the company’s web site for a more detailed list of changes. More ...